Flight Rising Discussion

Dead dragons are usually exalted in a funeral like ceremony that destroys the body. A dragon who is exalted while alive is swiftly "killed" by the element of the god they are exalted to. This varies in messiness depending on the deity.

If they'e desperate enough, Dragons can use Breed Change scrolls to fake their own death. They dissapear for a bit, spill some blood on their old clothes, maybe even cut off a toe or a limb if the scroll transformation can regenerate lost parts. They transform into a new identity and leave behind enough grizzly "evidence" to make it look like they were killed somehow.

[quote name="RavenDragons" date="2021-06-15 21:47:19" ] Capsule liquefies the innards of the dragon. For those changed by scroll, this is an agonizing transformation that can often be lethal. The strange liquid remains very volatile even once contained. Even those born can someday be consumed by the acidic liquid which fills their bodies, hollowing them out more and more until they succumb to it. There are ways to delay the inevitable, but it always comes with a price. What are you willing to sacrifice for your own life? [/quote] Those gene headcanons really makes you think. If you start to think about it hard enough on how each gene would work in a more realistic (or maybe not so) setting, it becomes really dark. Like, what job would each gene have? They simply look like mutations that some dragons have because it's pretty and they would breed not thinking of the future consequences. Something like Thorns or Scorpion look very useful in surviving for whatever reason. Scales and Glowtail also would have their place. Stitched gene looks painful and probably high demanding, those pieces of flesh definitely shouldn't go together. I imagine dragons having to be careful about stitches and make sure to clean properly so they don't get infected. I imagine dragons with the WaspBee genes to have an durable carapace, but as it is indeed an insect they will have an outer skeleton while the innard would have no skeleton or at least a softer one. Their wings, despite being powerful enough, are really brittle and can be dangerous if the enemy attacks the wings. I would say Keel could probably called as something with more protection or a mate caller, but I can only think of it as overgrown scales that are an unwanted mutation that is tecnically something that shouldn't happen and could more be described as a genetic disease. I imagine them having trouble shedding, and the scales sometimes overgrowing leaving the poor dragon's only choice to painfully rip them out or trim them like a tooth or nail. On the other not really dark hand I'm just wondering how the heck Firefly is a gene and how it would work. Are they like an extension of the dragon's soul? Are they a sort of familiar? i dunno Anyway I wrote this while I'm extremely tired and should go to bed, not sure if this makes sense at all.

[quote name="Seabi" date="2021-06-15 22:22:30" ] [quote name="RavenDragons" date="2021-06-15 21:47:19" ] Capsule liquefies the innards of the dragon. For those changed by scroll, this is an agonizing transformation that can often be lethal. The strange liquid remains very volatile even once contained. Even those born can someday be consumed by the acidic liquid which fills their bodies, hollowing them out more and more until they succumb to it. There are ways to delay the inevitable, but it always comes with a price. What are you willing to sacrifice for your own life? [/quote] Those gene headcanons really makes you think. If you start to think about it hard enough on how each gene would work in a more realistic (or maybe not so) setting, it becomes really dark. Like, what job would each gene have? They simply look like mutations that some dragons have because it's pretty and they would breed not thinking of the future consequences. Something like Thorns or Scorpion look very useful in surviving for whatever reason. Scales and Glowtail also would have their place. Stitched gene looks painful and probably high demanding, those pieces of flesh definitely shouldn't go together. I imagine dragons having to be careful about stitches and make sure to clean properly so they don't get infected. I imagine dragons with the WaspBee genes to have an durable carapace, but as it is indeed an insect they will have an outer skeleton while the innard would have no skeleton or at least a softer one. Their wings, despite being powerful enough, are really brittle and can be dangerous if the enemy attacks the wings. I would say Keel could probably called as something with more protection or a mate caller, but I can only think of it as overgrown scales that are an unwanted mutation that is tecnically something that shouldn't happen and could more be described as a genetic disease. I imagine them having trouble shedding, and the scales sometimes overgrowing leaving the poor dragon's only choice to painfully rip them out or trim them like a tooth or nail. On the other not really dark hand I'm just wondering how the heck Firefly is a gene and how it would work. Are they like an extension of the dragon's soul? Are they a sort of familiar? i dunno Anyway I wrote this while I'm extremely tired and should go to bed, not sure if this makes sense at all. [/quote] Gembond is canonically a disease

I have dwarfism myself so i've decided the scroll of eternal youth can do lots of things based on my form of dwarfism. Gives dragons a form of dwarfism that causes; -severe arthritis, especially if they used it as a fully grown adult dragon. -magic depletion due to a sudden size change, they get weak and tired a lot more. -Overabundance of magic, causing them to literally explode from too much magic in such a small body. -Difficulty hearing or seeing especially at older ages. -constant ear infections caused by misshapen skull. -difficulty walking/balancing/flying, maybe even losing the ability to do that at all. [emoji=ridgeback winking size=2]